Does Asian eyelid enhancement represent a betrayal of one’s own culture and ethnicity?
This question is hard to answer. Everyone has a different opinion about whether a”double eyelid” procedure constitutes aesthetic enhancement or cultural effacement. If you look at the history of the Asian eyelid procedure, many of the early references to Asian eyelid crease formation were to procedures undertaken to emulate one’s own native peers, i.e., to look like the most beautiful Asians in a culture not Caucasians more broadly. Although aesthetic influences have greatly changed over a 1000 years, most Asians today seeking Asian eyelid enhancement are desirous of looking more like beautiful Asian pop stars and icons rather than resembling Caucasians. Clearly, the past 100 years and especially the past 10 years have shown a true cultural convergence and mixture of different races, as popularized in the mixed ethnic models that are ubiquitously on display today. Nevertheless, whether you decide to have Asian blepharoplasty should be derived from your own motivation not pressure from
